How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel
Presenting an account of the author's childhood in Czechoslovakia, this title features the tales of the his father's battle to provide for his family both in wealthy freedom and in terrifying persecution.-
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East of Eden
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A Month in the Country
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Giovanni's Room
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In Cold Blood
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Animal Farm
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Crucible
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Tokyo Express
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Things Fall Apart
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The Lonely Londoners
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Dubliners
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Caliban and the Witch
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Mrs Dalloway
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
A moving, bittersweet coming of age. . A collection that works its magic quietly * Kirkus Reviews *
[The series] sheds remarkable light on the literature, culture and politics of the region...anyone coming fresh to the field will be captivated by the richness, variety, humour and pathos of a classic literature that, through a shared historical experience, transcends national and linguistic boundaries. -- CJ Schüler * Independent on Sunday *
This [series] is a wonderful idea ... They are absurdist parables, by turns hilarious, unsettling and enigmatic. -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
I urge you to go and read them. -- Adam Thirlwell * New Statesman *
This new series of Central European Classics is important well beyond simply providing 'good reads'. -- Stephen Vizinczey * Daily Telegraph *
[The series] sheds remarkable light on the literature, culture and politics of the region...anyone coming fresh to the field will be captivated by the richness, variety, humour and pathos of a classic literature that, through a shared historical experience, transcends national and linguistic boundaries. -- CJ Schüler * Independent on Sunday *
This [series] is a wonderful idea ... They are absurdist parables, by turns hilarious, unsettling and enigmatic. -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
I urge you to go and read them. -- Adam Thirlwell * New Statesman *
This new series of Central European Classics is important well beyond simply providing 'good reads'. -- Stephen Vizinczey * Daily Telegraph *
Ota Pavel (1930-1973) worked for much of his short life as a journalist and sports reporter. Despite serious bouts of mental illness he wrote brilliant, lyrical accounts, some collected in How I Came to Know Fish, of his childhood and his family in a Czechoslovakia under overwhelming threat from Nazism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141192833 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141192836 |
| Title | How I Came to Know Fish |
| Author | Ota Pavel |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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